Rights of Demonstrators in Palestine ~ by Stephen Lendman

opednews.com | Stephen Lendman | Aug 6, 2012    Israel violates Palestinian rights with impunity.   Last September, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) published an “Informational Pamphlet for Demonstrators in the Occupied Territories.” It provided “coping strategies.” Free societies permit peaceful demonstrations. They also allow free expression. In Occupied Palestine, Israel prohibits […]

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Hebron: Palestinian streets closed for Israeli settlers

By Jonas Ravn | 6 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank In Hebron on the evening of July 29, almost 100 Israeli settlers from the illegal settlements occupying the centre of the city crossed into the Palestinian-controlled area H1. The settlers illegally entered H1 supported by a heavy Israeli military presence. Earlier that […]

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#Airflotilla3 | ‘Welcome to Palestine’ activists plan another ‘flytilla’

Monday, 06 August 2012 | Al Arabiya Pro-Palestine activists are planning another “flytilla” to continue with their “Welcome to Palestine” campaign on August 24. (AFP) // // inShare1 By Al Arabiya Activists are gearing up for another “flytilla” to continue with their “Welcome to Palestine” campaign, a newspaper reported on Monday. Pro-Palestine activists attempted their first […]

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#PALESTINE NEWS | Aug 6, 2012

آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Aug 6, 2012 | 23897 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1881 days For news of previous news days | Daily News Overviews Follow on Twitter for more live updates NEW REPORT Published by Adalah, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights | June […]

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Total Moral Bankruptcy! Israel Refuses to Cooperate with UN Fact-Finding Mission

Related: Israel. Not looking for Peace. Nor Talks. But this… Monday August 06, 2012 14:32 by Kelly Joiner – IMEMC & Agencies The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has assembled a team of experts to investigate the expansion of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Ma’an News reported on Sunday that the fact-finding […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Violent Israeli shelling on Rafah

[ PIC 06/08/2012 – 07:59 AM ] RAFAH, (PIC)– The eastern outskirts of Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip, came under heavy artillery shelling on the part of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Sunday night. Local sources told the PIC reporter that IOF troops fired more than 15 shells at the Gaza airport […]

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Prisoner Abu Sunaina on hunger strike to protest his arrest by PA forces

[ PIC 06/08/2012 – 10:32 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– West Bank youth group against political summonses and arrests said prisoner Nidal Abu Sunaina started hunger strike for indefinite days following his arrest yesterday by the Palestinian Authority preventive security forces in Al-Khalil city. The youth group stated in a press release that the PA preventive […]

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IOF soldiers arrest six Palestinians including two children | @DCI_Palestine @UNICEF @Amnesty @Warchild

[ PIC 06/08/2012 – 09:31 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up six Palestinians in Al-Khalil and Bethlehem at dawn Monday including two children, local sources said. The sources said that the soldiers arrested a 27-year-old man and two children in the Old City of Al-Khalil. They said that Mohammed Atef, 14, […]

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Hamas warns of IOA plan to change the status quo inside the Aqsa

[ PIC 06/08/2012 – 11:20 AM ] (PIC)– Hamas movement warned the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) over the serious consequences of changing the status quo in the Aqsa mosque. The movement said in a statement on Sunday that “any Israeli attempt to change the status quo inside the Aqsa mosque, as what was on forced […]

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Expansion of settlement south of Bethlehem

[ 06/08/2012 – 09:22 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) expanded the boundaries of Nevi Daniel settlement built on land of El-Khader village, south of Bethlehem, where they confiscated new Palestinian land and blocked access before its owners. The coordinator of the Counter-Segregation Wall Committee, Ahmed Salah, said that a military barricade erected […]

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#India condemning barring of NAM meeting, about to sign a $10-15 billion/year FTA with #Israel

It’s all about the shekels! India objects to cancellation of NAM meeting on  the occasion of a Palestinian bid at the United Nations  (Source  TwoCircles.net ) Economic Times reported although on Aug 2, 2012: MUMBAI: India and Israel will hold another round of negotiations on August 14-16 on signing the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to […]

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Update for #Floriade2012 Israel’s agricultural development’ Villagers facing eviction ‘harassed by army’

Maan News Agency | Aug 6, 2012 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces are detaining locals and confiscating agricultural equipment in eight villages slated for demolition, residents told the Union of Agriculture Workers Committee. Israel is planning to demolish eight villages in the south Hebron hills to use the land as military training ground. All residents […]

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Egypt’s Brotherhood says Mossad behind Sinai attack

Maan News Agency | Aug 6, 2012 CAIRO (Reuters) — Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on its website that the attack on a police station in Sinai on Sunday in which 16 policemen were killed “can be attributed to Mossad” and was an attempt to thwart Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. The statement said Mossad, the Israeli […]

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Barhoum lashes out at Israel for blocking NAM meeting

[ 06/08/2012 – 09:46 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A Hamas spokesman has lashed out at Israel for blocking the non-aligned movement’s conference in Ramallah aimed at supporting the Palestinian people. The spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, denounced the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) in a statement on his Facebook page on Sunday for blocking entry of NAM foreign […]

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Abu Marzouk denounces Sinai massacre

[ PIC 06/08/2012 – 08:44 AM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– Deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau Mousa Abu Marzouk condemned the attack on Egyptian border guards in the Sinai which claimed the lives of 16 soldiers and rendered many others wounded. In remarks posted on his facebook page, Abu Marzouk accused the Israeli regime of being […]

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